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Welcome to Emile's Links, a page for amassing links to anything to do with Blacksmithing and Foundry (plus some other stuff).

Emile (the author of this page) now has a new page and no longer maintains this one so we have taken over the task on anvilfire!

Sleepy Hollow Forge and Foundry (Formerly OK Forge) Blacksmithing in Olde Kinderhook, NY (Emile's new page)

Theforge Mailing list Info

ABANA TheForge Info page Go here first if wondering about TheForge
All Three Volumes of "Best of Theforge" Zipped - (257K)

Organizations

ABANA the Artist-Blacksmiths' Association of North America homepage
ABANA-Chapter.com Find your local chapter.
Alphabet Soup Metalworking Acronyms and link list.
BABA: British Artist Blacksmith Association
LAMA: Louisiana Metalsmiths Association
CVBG Central Virginia Blacksmith's Guild
The Guild of Metalsmiths
Forging Industry Association

Smithy Homepages

Koka Metalsmiths Master Smith Bill Fiorini & Kirsten Skiles
Tim Lively Knives Professional Knifemaker
Moose Creek Forge
MP Metalworks Matthew Parkinson (swordmatt).
Paw Paw's Forge Jim "Paw-paw" Wilson
R. Walsh Gate & Railing
Shady Grove Blacksmith Shop
Spanish Lake Blacksmith shop
Wrought Iron Solutions Mark Brown, blacksmith
Dillon Forge, Roswell, GA

In Print

Lindsay:Source for hard to find books
Anvil Magazine
Blacksmith's Gazette: Editor Fred Holder
Blacksmith's Journal
Bituminous Bits : The Journal of the Alabama Forge Council
American Farriers Journal (AFJ) Magazine Online
Traditional Metalsmith A George Dixon publication

Foundry

FOUNDRY101.COM Small home shop foundry info.

Foundry 101 - Metal Casting Small Foundry Learning Site.

Marshall's page
Melting metal in a domestic microwave oven
RioGrande

Ironmaking, Smelting and Bloomeries

The ROCKRIDGE BLOOMERY How wrought iron is made by the bloomery process.
More links from Lee Sauder, The Rockridge Bloomery

American Mystery Furnaces
Museum of Welsh Life
Romano-British Iron
Fate of Chinese Ironmaking

Iron Smelting by Pit-Coal - Dud Dudley From a History of the Industrial Revolution
Ancient hammers (XIX Century martinets) Helve Hammers in French
Crucible steel on the 10th century Silk Road.
The Dogon Blacksmiths of Mali, Africa
../Chemistry/Industrial/c00122c.html Chemistry of iron reduction
www.heprefs.co.uk/bfdesign.html Color cross sections of blast furnace and refractories used

Coal - Charcoal

First Anthracite Coal Burned in Grate by Judge Jesse Fell
PA COAL ANALYSIS DATA
WEST VA COAL DATA

Hardware and Suppliers

Kayne and Son NEW Illustrated on-line catalog.
Austrailian Blacksmith Supply
Centaur Forge Blacksmiths & Farrier Tools, New management.
CustomHammer.com Power hammers and Machinery
Grainger
Kick Wheel Pottery Supply Flux, clay, raw chemicals
McMaster-Carr Supply Company
Montague Blacksmith Supplies
N A Z E L Parts and Service
NIMBA ANVILS
Jere Kirkpatrick's Valley Forge & Welding
The Real Wrought Iron Co.
www.forgemaster.com Gas Forges
UNITED Forginghammers Beaudry, Bradley, Fairbanks.

Armour, Knives & Swords

Armourers Ring Discussion Forum
[ Welcome ] [ Messages ]

Swordforum.com
www.jssus.org Japanese Sword Society of the United States
Thai Aranyik Sword Backgound Krom Darb-Song-Mu, or "Sword in both hands".
Valentine Armoury, Calgary Canada
The Blade Society - where friendly people like to stick sharp pointy pieces of metal into one another and brag about it over food and drink!
François PITAUD Knifemaker, French and English

General Blacksmithing

a n v i l f i r e !: Got questions? Owner loves them!
couteaux.free.fr/ Unbelievable collection of antique anvil photos. French
If you don't read French, go to: Les Enclumes, c'est beau... je collectionne...
and Photos d'enclumes d'amis
Tim Lively Knives Knifemaking and How-to forums
Blacksmithing TV
Boatman Publishing: Site includes a Blacksmithing On-line Museum.
RepousseTools.com
OldLocks.com Locksmithing, old locks and keys.
Elektric Anvil
Fremlin's Forgery
The Iron Rose: Functional and Decorative Blacksmithing
Metal-Crafts Australia
The Forge & Anvil Homepage:
Queen City Forge

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